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American Negro short stories / edited by John Henrik Clarke.
LIBRA PS647.N35 C541 1966
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LIBRA Rare PS647.N35 C541 1966 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American century series
- American century series.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American--20th century.
- Short stories, American.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 355 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 1966.
- Contents:
- The Lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- On Being Crazy / W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Goophered Grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- The City of Refuge / Rudolph Fisher
- The Overcoat / John P. Davis
- Truant / Claude McKay
- A Summer Tragedy / Arna Bontemps
- The Gilded Six-Bits / Zora Neale Hurston
- Bright and Morning Star / Richard Wright
- The Boy Who Painted Christ Black / John Henrik Clarke
- One Friday Morning / Langston Hughes
- So Peaceful in the Country / Carl Ruthven Offord
- And/Or / Sterling Brown
- Fighter / John Caswell Smith
- The Homecoming / Frank Yerby
- How John Boscoe Outsung the Devil / Arthur P. Davis
- Solo on the Drums / Ann Petry
- Mama's Missionary Money / Chester Himes
- See How They Run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman
- Exodus / James Baldwin
- God Bless America / John O. Killens
- Train Whistle Guitar / Albert Murray
- The Senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller
- A Matter of Time / Frank London Brown
- Cry for Me / William Melvin Kelley
- Reena / Paule Marshall
- The Convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- The Winds of Change / Loyle Hairston
- The Screamers / LeRoi Jones
- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer
- The Sky is Gray / Ernest J. Gaines.
- Notes:
- Jacket design by Saul Lambert.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has no series statement.
- OCLC:
- 712173
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